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If you were to make a list of the largest, most platform differences defining between Apple's iOS and Google's Android, a point would be near the top: Android allows you to plug in third party keyboards operating system, and does not iOS.
On Android, one of the most popular of these alternative keyboards is SwiftKey. And now it's available for iOS - somehow. This is part of SwiftKey Note, an application making Free Notes for iPhone and iPad which debuted today.
key application gaze as the standard iOS, but includes a lot of features that have made success SwiftKey on Android. When you type a word, three options appear above the keyboard, any of which you can select with a tap. Once you complete a word, three possibilities for the next word you might want to type appear. And as you use the app, SwiftKey learns your typing habits, helps autocorrections actually be correct and his predictions for the next word to be useful.
In this first incarnation iOS, there are a lot of Android version of SwiftKey is missing. Besides the fact that the keyboard is available only in this single application, you can not connect to Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and other sources to let him learn more about your prose style ever greater accuracy. And this version of the keyboard does not include SwiftKey Flow, the Swype-like option that allows you to slide your finger across the keyboard rather than typing, as if it were a small ice skater
(Note. If Swype never arrives on iOS, in any form, this will be the reason a lot of joy, at least by me all the keyboards on all mobile devices, it is my favorite, I do not find Flow - or one of the many other clones in other Swype keyboards -.. as quick and accurate)
Did someone switch from another iOS taker simply to get a better keyboard ? Perhaps, but SwiftKey Note is integrated with most taking notes high-profile of all app, Evernote. Once you have connected the two applications he uses Evernote to sync notes you take between devices, and anything you type into land SwiftKey Note Evernote, too. It is a trick that allows you to think like SwiftKey Note Evernote add-on rather than a rival.
SwiftKey note was not a ton of features beyond the basic principles of taking notes, but there are two key: You can copy the contents of a note to the clipboard with a tap, or send them to an email. This means that if you really like the keyboard, you can type text into the app, then move it to another application.
Of course, if you use an iPhone or iPad and like SwiftKey keyboard, you will not be happy with it only being available in an application - you'll want everywhere. Although Apple does not open to alternative iOS keyboards, there is a possible workaround in which SwiftKey could work directly with third-party developers to integrate its keyboard. (Rival SwiftKey Fleksy already, although it is signed only a handful of applications to date.)
SwiftKey said it is considering offering its keyboard to other iOS developers. I hope so. When Apple iOS 8 starts talking, as he will probably do this summer, I hope that the new involving keyboards - if not the ability to connect an alternative as SwiftKey or Swype, features at least more than Apple cultivated that are reminiscent of them.
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